can a bank count things that aren’t money on its balance sheet. Like if I deposited a bunch of gold into a bank, could it lend against that?
Yes, the basel III framework defines how they get to count those assets in their regulatory capital
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yeah you can generalize it to can <financial institution> hold <non-cash asset> to meet requirements for using leverage, and the answer will vary based off those inputs and situation but generally, to some degree, in many cases the answer is yes
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See e.g. this discussion of how Bitcoin is counted in CET1 capital, different stuff is weighted differently in the risk frameworkpic.twitter.com/TKkkNH7P7y
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